Mr. Wrong Short Story

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Mr. Wrong T.J I remember telling Margie to communicate to T.J that I wanted to talk to him and for her to give him my number. She communicated with him, but didn't give him my number. So, one day when I went to Margie’ s house in Moyewood, we went walking and we proceeded to walk past TJ'S house, and Margie tells me, "that's where T.J lives." I said, go see if he's home. She did, and he was, and she told him I wanted to talk to him, so he came outside and told me to come over to him. We exchanged numbers, talked for a few minutes and I left. In the beginning of T.J and I dating, he seemed nice, intelligent, conscious and articulate. I really liked him and those qualities. T.J was 19 going on 20 and he was also highly popular from his dancing and his hustling days, and hard to stay in contact with. Although I didn’t like this, I continued to pursue him because I felt like it was such an honor to be with a popular guy….as a matter of fact, I seemed to always attract …show more content…

Just feeling emotionally imbalanced. I finally told my family what happened. My parents called the police. One of my older brother's Jay, left the house to link up with Janeil and go look for T.J. I felt like everything was falling apart and becoming a big mess. My mom had a police woman come talk with me. I had to tell her everything that happened and show her the clothes I had on the night of the rape. I just kept wishing what I was going through wasn't real. I wanted everything to go back to the way things were before this incident. A day later, I went out, and I wined up bumping into T.J. we talked for a little while, and I began to feel sorry for him. When I got back home, I told my family that my accusations were a lie. I made up a fictional story to explain why I had told such a horrendous lie like I did.. I was scolded for lying about something so serious and made to apologize to my

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